How much do I love Survivor? I love it so much that I decided today to start my own really live game of it. Now that I'm in the ED Program, I have to register for certain classes. So all out of whole crew here at OU, I've compliled a list of all my peeps that I keep in contact with. So out of like 20 of my closer friends at school, I talked to a good portion today to see who will be moving on with me in the winter semester and who'll be left behind. Dang SpongeBob along with you Tina! are like 2 semesters ahead of me. So who got voted out today? Stephanie, Ross, Amy, Sarah, and Karen along with the other 2 mentioned. I'm just gonna have to cherish the remainder of the semester with them this year.

Speaking of Survivor, their are only 2 people that I like to see win it all, Ryan O. and Darrah. Man, Darrah is a cutie with a freaky occupation. Dang it, Nicole had to be the first voted off then Michelle just a couple of weeks later.

Mmmmm football Sunday, to play football, Xtreme Stamp Camp, or homework? Hmmm this is a tough choice here. Ok, time to walk Tina to class then off to Passion.

Wookie

Man, I just left the ED Advising office and I feel like I just signed my life over. First off I must be like the most unorganized student in the program now. Anyhoot, I just signed a contract now and I'm excited that I recieved a letter saying that I am now officially in the ED Program. This letter definitly is going up on my fridge baby! The suck part is that now I actually have to attend all these meetings and next winter I actually have to start student teaching again. Man that is one less day for me to sleep in possibly :( Signing this contract also means another step closer to dare we say graduation. On the bright side though, it means more goofing around in the ED courses as it seems that's all I ever do.

Last night at Beech Woods, we played against the team that won B last year and had to move up to A. The sadly quote of the night by Howard "Man I can't believed that guy blocked you" referring to some fat guy. Anyhoot Howard and I kept talking during the time out because we were pumped to play that team since they kept talking. The thing was though, we didn't know if they were talking to us or not because they all spoke Spanish. Nonetheless, it was a first time ever for me to trash talk to the other team in my limited Spanish skills.

Then it was like a tale of 2 cities, going from Beech Woods to Boulan. The fun part was that I roofed Blake and Jason, more fun to roof Blake to shut him up for once. The sad part is I keep wondering how much longer God keeps testing my patience with this team. I got my warning and close to a yellow card with arguing back with the ref. The quote of this game "You should tell your team to start underhand serving" as one of the females from Jason's team was talking to me at the net. I of course didn't take any offense to that because hey she's right. I met our newest teammate, another Melissa that I know now. Gosh she was a cutie, and for the first time ever, I experienced something new on the court. As I was going to get the ball to serve, cutie Melissa came up and slapped me in the booty. I have never had a girl slap me in the butt during a game. My first thought was of JW, thinking "yeah do it again", then my next thought was of Viv thinking back of her booty slapping story. Then my last thought was, wow I feel violated, then oh crap I better serve the ball before time runs out.

Anyhoot, I'm gonna head on down to Toledo now. 5:14 Hot Pot Tonight at llz's place baby, and the Pistons home opener. Have fun Carl and Shaun, sorry I couldn't join y'all at the game.

Resonate

Wow, it's funny reading or listening to everyone talking about their soreness from Sunday's Football Madness. Another great job by the Fungster of setting it up. One thing that I wanna start working back on is my QB skills. I never got to play QB much growing up because my cousins always wanted to play QB. But I think I can be a darn good QB. What I've been thinking about lately, is vision. Do I have vision for CBC? Do I have it for 5:14? In sports, playing PG in b-ball, I feel like I see a lot of things that people don't see. The same thing with v-ball in terms of hitting, not often do I get roofed. When I line up as a WR, to me it's like I see the coverage and the blitzes coming. So if I was lined up at QB, I know who were gonna be my check downs before I even snap the ball. I guess I'm just thankful for God giving me the gift of vision in a lot of ways.

Speaking of vision, I've been thinking about my future a lot lately. Eh, maybe because I'm still one of the youngest in 5:14 and peeps always talk about their jobs and moving. I often think about moving out to Minnesota, to be with some of my extended family out there. It's just so beautiful over there with all the lakes, and walking around St. Paul. Then my mind shifts over to the likes of NYC. After driving there the past 2 years now, I love the action out there, it's never dull. Plus I got family out there too, so it would be nice to spend time with them. I even thought of Florida, going down to our condo and living it up in Daytona, where it's always warm, along the beach, and the roads are smooth. Then again this past Sunday got me thinking, nah I'm here at CBC in MI. I don't think I could leave my parents as they get older because I want to take care of them as much as they have taken care of me, plus I don't think my sis will stick around to help them either. Then their was getting my teaching stuff for my term when I teach Jr. Church. I was looking over everything and I was excited to use a lot of different methods that I learned this semester into my teaching skillz. Then just playing with Christopher and Audrey, makes me think that yeah I wanna be around to see their generation be strong Christians.

Now I keep thinking about my sis, yes my actual one. She's been sick now for 2 weeks, and she puked the other day. It makes me think that I wish she was home so I could take care of her because she ain't really good at that on her own. Or if I could, just pass the gift God has given me with, of quick healing abilities. I hope she is feeling better up there otherwise I'll have to take some time off to make a trip to Sparty land.

Quote of the day from Amanda "Those 3 should not be sitting next to each other."

Hahahah, referring to Carl, Shaun, and myself as we were laughing it up in EED yesterday. Melissa now wants to break us 3 up because all we do is crack jokes at each other. What was fun was trying to shoot hoops with these beans that we got from Kristin's group. Kristin we hooked your group up with 1's on the evals!

Dang it, just got done taking my HST exam too. Man it looks like playing football on Sunday was a bad idea, but oh well, grades aren't everything. 1 class left for today before I get the exciting back to back v-ball games at Beech Woods, and Troy. I get to take on the Super Powers today in Jason and Blake, man I need to kick it up a notch and not waste too much energy at the Ford game.

Reality

Frustration, pisstation, furiated, etc. is how I felt after yesterday's Conference Finals lost 20-6. Normally, I would say yeah it's my fault for losing but there is nothing that I could of think of for this one. A lot of teams in this league always kept challenging our QB's arm. Even our own teammates question his QB skills. I was one of the few who always stood up for him. The past few games I haven't seen the ball thrown my way as much. I kept my mouth shut, instead of "Throw me the damn ball" attitude I had in the regular season. Why? Because we were winning when I didn't see the ball thrown as much. But come on, in the Conference Finals, I kept looking around at who exactly on the team wanted a play. The sad part was, it wasn't even the defense that shut me down, but our conservative offense that kept me in check. I mean I had to line up at RB just to catch screen passes because we're afraid to throw deep or anything pass 10 yards.

On defense, it was set me vs. Mike that was the showdown. However, someone wanted me to take John because he was the fastest guy. But my opinion Mike is the more complete WR. 5 plays after the coin toss, yup Mike scores a 40 yard bomb over the CB who wanted to switch. After that play, for the rest of the game, Peter made me cover Mike. Oh yeah and let's see Mike stats after the switch, 2 receptions for 15 yards. The other CB who switched with me got burned again for what would be the last TD of the game. How much do I study games? I studied Mike's first 2 receptions against me. I noticed him and his QB go by the same thing I do, a number system on routes. For them, 1 was drag, 2 was an out pattern. Simple as that, I told everyone at halftime to anticipate it when you see a finger signal or a mouth signal. Of course people still got burned especially again the same CB. This was pissing me off, it's like who the G am I suppose to cover here?

Now we move on to special teams. As we were lining up to punt, it was decided that I would return this sucker. So of course the ball is in the air, and I'm running under it to get ready to catch it. However, my blockers are all looking up at the fricking ball too and one of them decides to catch it instead of blocking. My first thought was going back to last Sunday's game. I get the chance to return a kick, and all my blockers are looking up at the fricking ball with me instead of looking horizontal to block, and boom I get the clothesline from hell by JW because of course everyone is still staring at the ball. I mean geeez it's simple either you're a returner or a blocker, you can't be both here. QB's picking up blitzes, is it really that hard too? I mean for me I feel it's easy as reading a full court press in b-ball. There are a lot of people out there that think they can play this game but it's like if we played tackle, then people are gonna get hurt, no doubt about it.

The other sucked part in the Conference game was on one play, I was covering Mike. I saw him mouth the number 2, so I anticipated, and tweaked the same knee on the play. I heard a minor pop, but I was able to walk it off and not miss a play. Man now my knee feels like a rubber band though. I guess I gotta test this bad boy out on Sunday.

Someday

Hello everybody I want you to meet my best friend for the night, Naproxen. It is my lovely prescribed pain killers I keep with me in case I run out of Motrin or in my case somebody lost them. Boy what a day, first we go off again to more playoff drama. Dickman vs. URAPK, both offenses were awful. Let's cap down to the last play of the game where we opted to punt on 4th down with 5 seconds left when we had the lead 20-13. However, Ray fumbled the punt and with 1 second left at their 30 yard line had a chance. However, their dumb QB decides to run and actually got sacked again by Ray to end the game. The stars of the game, first has to be Steve. He is the least athletic person on our team, but what I love about him is that he knows his role and does a good job with it. His role is being the center and protecting Stan. He had a big catch and a big pass deflection.

The other stars had to be our newest addition Matt, Ray's friend. Those 2 just tormented the QB in the backfield. It was like Simeon Rice and Warren Sapp lined up on the line. Now as for me, let's see Dickman's QB completed more passes to me than Stan did. I mean does the word "lockdown" mean anything yet? I finished the game with 2 interceptions and plenty of return yards. That makes 5 interceptions for me in the last 6 games, almost averaging 1 a game.

So this Thursday, is the conference final game 5 West vs. URAPK. Man only one more win and we are off to the OU SuperBowl. Who would of thought that our team would make it this far? My assignment this Thursday, is to dog Mike all day. I have a great deal of respect for him because he was and still is on my v-ball team, and he is a great football player too. He is one of the league's big play recievers too. So I look forward to the challenge of 2 of the best players in the conference locking it down.

After the game though, I drove down to Beech Woods and as soon as the game started, it started to hurt. My back was like acting up, like if it had some dent in it or something. It hurt just to bend down to recieve a pass hence majority of my passes sucked. Hitting line was hard because I had to torque my body more. I ate my friend Mr. Naproxen which helped me finished the 3 games. It hurt when Bill went to put his hand on my back to go around me. I'm squirming right now just to keep it loose because it's stiff now. My shoulder feels like it's gonna fall off from hitting the past few nights now. Tomorrow, gotta make sure I sit in the hot tub to relax my muscles and keep loose for Thursday's game. This sucks though because can't even sleep with this pain in the back. What sucked even more was I tried to pull out everything I had in my energy, even on this one sweet back 1 set from Bill, and it just wasn't enough. On the bright side, Vertically Challenge is 6-0 now, gosh I can't stand our team name. This pain feeling is some what a good feeling too because at least I know I've been giving it my all, and as Howie said "he's still the youngster, he'll heal by tomorrow." Amen to that, in the mean time, time to look for that heating pad. Would be nice to let Brother Steve or Doc Kim take a looksy though. Oh well, I'm sure it's just a spasm.

Come Into My World

I finally saw Underworld this past Friday and despite the poor reviews the News gave it. I thought it was pretty cool, it sure got me thinking a lot. The best thing I guess was the "double-gun action" as I was told :) What I liked about the movie though was probably it's darkness. There was also another theme in the movie that never got mentioned or at least in the spotlight unless you picked it out. Anyways I can relate to this movie a lot in terms of the darkness mood, and the hidden theme because hey I've asked people about my characteristcs before.

Sunday, we played some good ol' 2 Hand Touch Football. Man each play I had to keep praying to myself or let God hear, to hold my frustrations in. However, I slipped at the end but man I can only take so much. Anyways, good job Fungster on getting this game going despite the crap you had to put up with. It's hard to satisfy everyone.

My sis came back for a little this past weekend. She wants to grow her hair out long again. I guess she must be sick of me calling her boy by now. Speaking of hair, since mine is getting a little long, what should I do to mine?

I've been thinking about one of my biggest sins at OU lately, or it's just a common thing for me as I try to work on it. It's my sin of getting attention at school. I really do feel like I'm back in the SHS days where I love being known. My first day in EED, the only friend I had in there was Melissa, not SpongeBob because we had class before then together. Now I sit in EED and it's like I lead half the class. I mean before class Melissa and I chill in the ERL just doing whatev's. My chinese bro, Carl joins in after the first week, then Shawn, then Kristin, then Lisa, and Amanda. I mean the rest of the class are like as old as my parents and view me as an obnoxious kid, while the rest of the class finds me funny and adorable at the things I do and say.

Then there's ECON, where as Alex has said "Wow K, your force grows stronger each week. Or he'll say "Man you own like half the class." It's amazing how much he knows when he doesn't come that often. Even in ECON, all I do is sleep and when I do wake up I'm just passing notes to everyone, some funny and some serious.

There's MTD, where it's like the only class where I got to freak some of the girls in the class because they were in my group for our Dance midterm. Yeah, I named our Dance presentation "Booty Cake (The Freak Remix). The dance was off the hook considering we put together a lot of various dances together. Unlike other groups where they just did one they knew already.

There's HST, I come in late and then sleep because dude it's a morning class. I now know history + morning class = zzzzzzz. So what I'm trying to tell myself is that I do need to set a better example. I often do share my love for God to my peeps at school, but at the same time do I act it. Just another weakness in me that I need to continue to pray to God to keep molding me away.

Finally, tomorrow is a big day for flag football. URAPK vs. Dickman, man this was the team where I exploded for my offensive numbers. However, they are a good DB blitzing team. Good thing, Stan, Matt, and I talked it over and got a few new plays worked up. Time to put the lockdown on my next opponent. Man after football, then v-ball game at Troy, then v-ball game at Beech Woods. The things I do to challenge myself.

In A Galaxy

Yesterday's playoff drama - URAPK vs. There Can Only Be 1 at halftime was 20-7 as we were down 2 scores and I looked everyone's heads just hanging as our season was only 20 minutes away from being over. Before the game started as we were grabbing our jerseys, Peter came up to me and asked "Do you feel like being David Terrell or Braylon Edwards?" I didn't know what he was talking about. Then he handed me the # 1 jersey and said "Here you deserve to wear this." So as halftime was over I just knew I had to do something to make the team believe we can win.

On There Can Only Be 1's 5th play on the drive, it happened. I anticipated and jumped up for our first interception of the game and brought it back it to their 30 yard line. A few plays later, boom Stan connects to Peter for the touchdown and converted the extra point to bring the score 20-13.

There Can Only Be 1 now has lead a long drive and are in the red zone. 3 plays they kept going to their dubbed Randy Moss, and 3 plays I deflected the ball away from him. The last one I was waving my finger to the QB and whispered to their Moss "tell them to keep throwing to you." On 4th and goal, Ray might of not had a sack throughout the game but his pressure on this play made the difference. As the QB kept scrambling backwards, Ray's pressure made him slp and fall which lead to a turnover on downs.

With only 1:30 left in the game now and the score at 20-13, we all knew in the huddle that we controlled our destiny now. With 30 seconds left in the game, and we're at their 10 yard line it seemed inevitable that we were gonna score. However, 3 plays later, we haven't moved an inch. Now their was only 7 seconds left, and it was 4th and goal, with no more timeouts. This was it, we ran our bootleg play, Stan rolls around close to the line of scrimmage, and just fires it to the corner of the endzone. It was a low throw, and I just dove for it, and touchdown as the ref signals in the air. We converted the extra point which ended the game at 20-20.

First overtime, both teams score to make it 26-26. Now they had the ball first for the start of 2nd overtime. We stopped them and again our turn to be on offense in which we knew again that we control our fate. However, 3 plays later nothing had happened again with a crucial 4th and goal now. The same bootleg play, Stan rolls around and finds Matt wide open for the TD to end the game. URAPK 32 and There Can Only Be 1 26. The chips were stacked against us to win because this was the OU Rec team as well.

As we were all celebrating our victory, which was our first, I kept telling everyone that we win when it matters. I was wearing #1 and I knew I had to step up my play even more on both sides of the ball. The OU Post our school newspaper came over to interview Stan and myself. Stan couldn't say much so I did most of the talking, which parts of it were cocky towards that other team because they kept looking down on us as we had the worst record. We have moved on to the semi-finals now and I have a nice 48 hours of rest before we hit practice again.

URAPK all the way, because you gotta believe in this team. Watch out for # 1 :) as the team has now made sure I wear that for the next game.

Errr, I wrote one last night and it never got published. Oh well, first off I think it's ridiculous how that fan is getting blamed for the Cubs failure to make it to the World Series. Any one of us would of made the same effort to try and catch the ball. I was so disgusted of how he was treated. I mean this guy paid good money to enjoy the game and he had to leave with security, he had to sit slouching down for the rest of the game with beer being thrown at him. His boss had to call him today to tell him not to come to work today. The governor of Chicago even spoke about it, and said this "if he ever gets convicted of anything in this city, then as long as I'm governor, he'll never get pardoned." I would feel embarassed to live in a city with that type of governor. Now this guy probably has to move out of this city. Like this one lady said, "10 other guys reached for it, but he was the one who got caught with it." I mean what's done is done, the Marlins won, and the Cubs choked. Yeah I wanted the Cubs to make it, but the better team won. I'm gonna pray for the fan and I hope God blesses him elsewhere, kind of like a Job thing.

Sorry brother Steve about the Cubbies, hopefully Sista Cat has better luck with her Red Sox.

Cuz sometimes if feels like the world's on my shoulders
Everyone's leaning on me
Cuz sometimes it feels like the world's almost over
But then it comes back to me

After tonight's 5:14 Bible study, I've been thinking about Eminem's song, Hailie's Song. I think what's been frustrating me is my lack of dependence on God and more of myself lately. Yesterday, the regular season ended for URAPK. Yeah it still cracks me up when the officials say it. We find a new way to lose, it's so unbelievable. I'm the team leader in receptions, yards, and touchdowns. Yet I keep complaining to the team, because I feel that no one wants to step up or is pulling their weight. Instead though, I should praise God for blessing me with the athletic gifts he has given me. It was a fun game yesterday because it was a total mud bowl, especially for me when i was covered with mud from head to toe. I also continued to show everyone that I'm one of the best shut down corners in the league by shutting down their dubbed Randy Moss. It was sweet when 4 defenders followed me on the fake WR reversal which set up a TD toss to Peter. All in all, tomorrow could be our last game of the season because of the playoffs. I'm gonna pray tonight and all through tomorrow before the game to really help me trust in my teammates and also give them confidence that we can pull out with a victory.

I've also been blessed to be able to play in the Ford V-ball league now too. I was so excited to play my first game being reunited with the Jung bro's and Bill. This makes 4 v-ball leagues and 1 football league for this semester. My body is sore and stiff in some areas, and this is just another area where I've been lacking being dependent on God. I'm a soldier, a child of Christ, and need to strengthen my vertical relationship with God to be even stronger. Speaking of vertical, what's up with our team name, Vertically Challenged? Anyways, going back, I need to be like Elijah and pray whole heartedly and earnestly.

Irony of the day after 5:14 Bible Study. Andy mentioned about drivers testing his patience. On my way home from V's, 696 was closed and I had to sit in traffic, which made it longer for me to get home. Gosh was this a test of patience for me, as I wanted to just drive through the cones. Man I should of taken Pontiac Trail home, good thing though for that Bible Study.

Man what a strong Bible study though to end our series in James. It kind of makes me wanna do James all over again after re-reading things on my own. I personally feel like their are still more things I can extract from it and apply it to my own life.

Finally on a last note, what GP B said about being a peacekeeper and a peacekeeper. As we discussed it today, I know their are still some things in my life that needs to be confronted. Hmm just another thing for me to pray for.

Alright time to get a lil shut eye, then off to class and back into battle as URAPK vs. There Can Only Be 1, kind of a fitting name, hopefully that 1 is us.

Sing For The Moment

First off I just wanna say that I feel bad for that fan in Chi-town. It's a shame that the Cubs fans threw beer at him and wanted to more to him. I would say any one of us would probably do the same. It really hurt me to see him for the rest of the game slumping in his seat and you can tell all the wetness from the beer. And he had this one long sad face, because he paid his hard earned money and can't even enjoy the ball game now for being a fan. It's a shame and it disgusted me to see how he was treated.

Miami vs. FSU part 2, wow it was fun today to play our last game in all that mud with the rain just pouring down. Again we find a new way to lose and I honestly think now that we have lost everyway possible, so now it's time for the W's. The sad part is my team continues to show up mentally weak. Today some of them kept whining about the weather and didn't want to play. By the end of the game, my orange cut-ff and shorts along with my arms was just covered in mud. It amazes me how no one on the team wants to step up when I draw consistent double coverage and still be able to lead the team in receptions, yards, and TD's. Today I was exhausted don't know if it was because I covered their version of Randy Moss or the all niter, but still continued to show that I am one of the best shut down corners here.

After that it was a race to Beech Woods for the Ford league. it was nice to reunite with the Jung bro's and Bill on a team together to sweep our series today. I met the other big guns on our team so this league should be fun.

With the addition of this league that makes 4 v-ball leagues and 1 flag football league for this semester. As I sit here, gosh is my body really sore. Now I think I'm gonna go off to bed for the first time in 48 hours with a nice ice pack and heating pad to get the soreness out.

Watch Yourself

So it's Monday, and I'm chilling with Melissa and my chinese bro, Carl in the ED building. The thing on my mind right now is bugs. It's one thing these Asian ladybugs are outside and all over the place. But sitting in the ERL, these things are all over the ground and the ceiling. Every now then a few would drop on our table, and I just flick them all at Melissa. Hahahaha, be scared of these things! Thru is slang Melis, haha we chinese we know when we are wong.

Quote of the day from Carl: "I'm paranoid with these fucking bugs."

I'm suppose to be doing my ECON or my HST term paper from my all niter but instead I'm doing nothing. Man looks like all niter tonight, good thing God blessed me over the weekend with free coupons to Caribou Coffee. Yup, I'll be hitting up that joint after the v-ball game.

Another thing with bugs, on Thursday, this large flying bug came into MTD. All these girls started staring at the sucker and the whole time I wondered what exactly are they staring at. So one of them tossed me a water bottle to kill it, and instead I decided to capture it. I tossed the water bottle back to the girls and they all freaked and all you could hear was a dead silence in the room then Prof. Lucas shouting "K what are you doing those poor girls?" The girls blamed me for threatening them with a bug, and so Prof. Lucas decides to make me act out a chimp in front of the whole class for my dance presentation.

Hahahah it's funny watching, Melissa getting paranoid about these bugs too now.

Man when will the new parts come out for my car? Woohoo I bought 2 Fast 2 Furious over the weekend!

Hahahah now Carl's scratching his whole body because he thinks a couple of them are crawling on him. Man these bugs are cracking me up.

Monday yay!

Yesterday was a day of frustration whether it was on the court or on the field. Actually it was funny first, for our football game because the head official was looking for all the teams. He kept asking different people if they are on U.R.A.P.K. All of us on the team busted out laughing because the ref kept shouting it out loud. Back to the game though, you would think leading in offensive yards that a team would win? But nope, we're the OU version of the Lions. I established myself as one of the best recievers in the league now with a 100 yard game and 2 TD's. The game was fun for me because as the game got closer to the end, I had triple coverage on me, with the CB taking the outside route away, the LB taking the inside route, and the safety taking anything deep. I just had to do a Randy Moss flexing TD dance with my 2nd one because it was just a 40 yard bomb by Stan, and I just outran the CB, and jumped over the safety for it. Our defense was pretty stellar too, with Ray now among the league leaders in sacks, after having a 6 sack day. I did what I said I would do and shut down my half of the field, where the QB didn't even bother throwing my way. So with all that, said you would think we won?

However that wasn't the case, because again we shot ourselves in the head with stupid penalties and turnovers. Down 13-12 with 2 minutes to go. I run a quick slant for a 10 yard gain only to get it wiped out for an offsides penalty which moves us back. Repeat down, Stan throws another bomb to me where I got us down to their 10 yard line for a gain of 50 yards. Nope, got that wiped out too with another penalty but this time for illegal blocking. Next couple of plays incomplete pass, and 4th and what seemed like eternity for me, interception of course to end the game.

Throughout the game I kept giving my own little version of T.O. in the huddles. I kept challenging my players to be more pumped and to step it up especially when their's 3 guys covering me. I'm glad that Ray responded to my speech with his Jevon Kearse performance. So if it weren't for the stupid penalties I could of had 150 yard day with 2 possibly 3rd TD. Don't know what else I have to do, to get a W. However, gotta take the good from this game, such as Ray's pass rushing ability, the new offensive scheme, and Stan and I's new Peyton/Marvin chemistry.

I rushed off to Boulan, for the season opener for Spiked Punch. We lost the first game and as we huddled, all eyes turned to me, and Rob and Melissa let me have the keys to the team to turn it around. So we won the next game, but dropped the 3rd. I crushed Mark and Bill's ego on our team when they kept asking me why I want to drop the 6-2 offense and told them straight up that "our passing sucks." However, the Ski Niks did a good job of taking me out of the game as well. With the stupid rule of 1 female has to touch the ball, and with Rob setting, they kept serving to me the 3rd game, so my passes actually get to Rob but he would have to set to Melissa who isn't a strong hitter. That was frustrating right there because it was a smart move by them and their was no way I could take myself out of passing.

So off to a 1-2 start, Rob and I already believe it will be a long season. We both agreed we also don't like playing with Bill either because not to offend anyone but what a cock he is. Erin noticed he didn't bother shaking the other team's hand after each game. Also I feel bad for Melissa for dating such a jerk. Watching him during warm ups he kept belittling her as if he was that much superior than her in v-ball. Gosh I just wanted to play against him and shut him up.

During the game too, Melissa thought I was upset and seemed a little more pissed to play. Which I was because I don't like playing against with cheaters which this one guy did. As I kept arguing back, the ref could card me, eject me for all I care, but Melissa had to restrain me from talking back with the ref too. So it felt no better when I killed one straight down on that guy's face and did a little dance in front of him. Then roofed him and stared him down, because like the ref said, I don't like dishonest players.

I keep wondering what else do I have to do to help these teams win? Which leads me to this too, I have lost 2 bottles of my Motrin because I'm letting people take some for their pain. So since this stuff isn't cheap, my new rule is on that is get your own.

The Moment

What a Monday night football game, I feel bad for Simion Rice for a stupid penalty called on him. Anyways, it's late of course and the past few days, I've been struggling with many different types of sin. Then everything just like revealed itself on Sunday as GP B spoke during worship. Bali spoke to me the day before as well and both of them mentioned the same thing. Satan knows us too and will use anything he can do doubt God or break us up from the church. Man that really got me thinking and reflecting a lot. Well now I feel or at least hope that I am back on right track.

What else has happened to me lately? Well in the sporting news, URAPK lost our season opener. I was disappointed because it was my fault that we lost. I got too greedy when balls were thrown to me, and lost concentration by looking up field before catching the ball. When I did, it gave the defense a chance to intercept the ball which they did. Granted a lot of the catches I had to make were either in the air or I was squatting trying to grab another, my rule of thumb is, if I touch it, then I should catch it. I still lead the team in receptions and yards but wasn't good enough to get a W. I'm really glad Peter's on our team because he's been doing most of the coaching part. I hate doing that because I'd rather focus on my own game vs. the whole team. Stan, Peter, and I were talking making the offense easier for the QB's by going with a base offense vs. a spread offense. Now Peter's got me playing CB to shut down one half of the field. I'm excited because now I can go back to my motto "Water covers 75% of the earth, I cover the rest." I gotta shorten my routes too, now that teams are playing a cloud defense over me, with a corner taking the inside away and the free safety over top of me. I want to say thanks to Kim for coming out to support us! Sorry for not getting the TD that I promised you, then again like Stan said, it's hard to win a game when we had 4 turnovers and the other team had none.

Tonight I played my first game with Powerspike. It was wierd watching my old team playing on the other court. I congratulated them after their game as they are now 5-0 in first in the league. One thing I've been thinking about lately, is that I have done a lot of talking on the court and field lately. However, it's like I felt like I haven't been backing it up to my expectations. So today I kept my mouth shut, and encouraged my new teammates instead. We lost our first game, and it irritated me, then it happened. Everyone in the huddle looked towards me for leadership, Larry told me to postion everyone. Chris and Dave after each game supported my moves and went along with everything I said. By the time we finished our games, some of the other people watching the games believe that it might be Larry's team on paper, but also believe that I am the heart and soul of the team. I'm the new kid on this team, and it's wierd to have the keys to the team already, but I do need to do a better job in terms of leadership on this team. I'm excited though we're off to a 4-1 start now.

Another thing that has happened to me, was that I ran into an old friend at OU. 2 weeks ago this girl was waving hi to me at the OC, but I blew her off because I didn't think it was to me. Last week she stopped me and asked if I went to SHS. Just as I thought, it was Lindsey who looked as beautiful as ever. I remember when I first met her my junior year at SHS and she was a sophmore, I had a huge crush on her. I was the assistant coach for the JV tennis team at the time, and she thought of me as her personal coach. Yeah I liked coaching her, sometimes it was flirting, but she really improved as a tennis player. We were talking on Thursday, and I was happy to hear that she finished in the top 15 in the Miss Michigan pageant. Anyways, I'm glad she's a GG now and I look forward to hanging out with her in the future now.

Now what really pissed me off today was when I walked out of the ED building. I could see it from a mile away, some fat person I'm assuming had to open the door so fricking wide that it took a piece of paint off my car. Errrr, now I am trying to think of what is the best way to take care of this. I tell you though fricking fat people and cars, slow drivers on the road, it all adds up. I have 2 words for these people "public transportation." If anyone knows of a good body shop guy, please give me a call because this thing is frustrating me.

Which brings about another subject, this is for you Shawn. Dang it for our EED group project, Carl and I should of kept it to an Asian only group. Now you had to ask the one guy that I totally disapprove in the class, the Britany loving (not in that way either), cheerleading Big Red, gay guy of the class. Well what's done is done, and I guess this is a good chance for Carl, Shawn, and I to truly figure out if this guy is really gay. Which the rest of the class seems to agree with me.

Plans for tomorrow, one goal only now, concentrate on the game and let it come to me.

Dilema

Terrell Owens, in my view is one of the best WR in the NFL. I've been listening to ESPN and hearing what others think of his tirades as of late. I am for one who is all for it and supports his actions. Their is a guy who wants to win a game and play his heart out. He even chewed out his offensive coordinator! Like Michael Irvin said their are players who come in to collect the money or don't care about the wins or losses, but T.O. plays for the love of the game.

So with that in mind, now that I've been settled and got to be acquainted with my new teammates on Monday and Tuesday nights. After a few practices and exhibition games, I'm glad I signed on with PowerSpike and Spiked Punch. At least they have players who give it their all and if they don't then I'll be on their cases. Here's a short convo of another team trying to recruit me to play, from team Shield's.

C: Hey do you wanna have some fun and play on our team this year?
K: Hmmm, well fun for me is winning and being/staying competitive.
C: Oh then, I guess you don't want to play on our team.
K: Yeah I guess not.

What's amazing is how people think they are good just cause they play an X amount of years? My new friend Jason, who is just an amazing v-ball player, were talking last night as Melissa (my new team capt.) wanted to see if we should recruit Tammy as a player. Jay and I kept telling Rob that she can not be the setter in a 6-2 offense because she has her own probs setting when we are doing hitting drills.

Oh yay to this too, looks like I'll be playing opposite of Melissa on this team. Yup, I'm the setter in the 6-2 offense, gotta admit my hands have gotten better. But not nearly as good as where I want them to be. It also looks like I have underestimated the talent of this Co-Ed league too. TJ's team has made some major upgrades last night. They were pissed because Chris ditched them the night before, although I knew ahead of time. But they picked up Jason, and the new stud on the court Blake.

Jason like I said is a great player, his size reminds of Connie's friend Ray but Jason is a more solid all around. I thought though I would be the cockiest kid in this league, but I believe Blake has me beat on this one. At age 18, this kid was just barking out orders to his team. Even Jason was getting annoyed and making faces. Blake reminds of Den Den, but a lot taller and longer arms, with the same windup and kill approach. I'll admit this kid can fly above the new and I like the our stare downs yesterday to see who will be the best in this league. I wonder if he was jump serving because I kept doing it? It felt good though to roof him and shut his mouth up for at least one play. It was fun last night, playing against TJ's team to go up against both Jason and Blake. Considering we're the 3 youngest and best in the league, now it's time to see who'll emerge to be the best. It's time for me to finally go S.S. in this league and see where that gets me, enough playing around now that the season starts next week.

We had our first football practice yesterday too! Team U.R.A.P.K. had some pretty good battles in terms of who will be the starting QB, Stan or Phil. Peter has the playbook for us as I've already memorized my routes on each formation. It was nice to see my Asian brotha, Eddie from our Titans days. It also helps for me that Peter played football at Troy High, so I can call the coverages and he'll know what I'm talking about. We watched as a team the exhibition opener last night too. Gosh if those teams are in our conference then we should be ok. With Ali's team in the MW Conference, then it should be a wide open race for first in our's. Tomorrow's our season opener, Coach Bye always made us write down 3 goals on our playbooks before each game so we have something to shoot for. So here are mine:

1) Lead the team to our first win.
2) Get 100 yards recieving and a TD.
3) Return a kickoff for a TD or get an INT.

I also had a nice long talk with GP B, it was nice because he made me realize a key aspect that I've forgotten lately. I should worry only about how God wants me to be. I'm glad he was there today to give me some spiritual guidance as well.

Hmmm, I am having neck spasms, a pulled shoulder, a thigh bruise, a bone bruise on my elbow, and a juicy knee. Yeah baby, pracitices and games, this is what you live for to be a soldier on the field/court.

Double Blade